Comments on: Intensive Purposes

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:37:58 +0000

And a “Doggy Dog World” is only acceptable if you are quoting Snoop-Dog.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 20:35:14 +0000

You’re English teacher wuzn’t not wrong.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:25:22 +0000

My English teacher told me that “I couldn’t care less” was incorrect because it is a double negative, the ‘not’ and ‘less’, and although the phrase “I could care less” doesn’t literally mean what one thinks one is saying it is still the correct version of the phrase.

By: Mark Henderson

Mark Henderson — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:45:36 +0000

Ouch. Not only the incorrect “for all intents and purposes”, but also the wrong form of “its”. Another thorn in the side of any English teacher. “It’s” is short for “it is”. The possessive form of “it” is “its” with NO apostrophe. So, here you should use “and for its purpose…??”

By: Lance

Lance — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:44:46 +0000

Obviously, if we care not at all, we are at the bottom of the caring pole, so we cannot care less.

By: Lance

Lance — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:43:36 +0000

We repeat what we think we hear, just as someone once thought he heard “I could care less”, because the “couldn’t” wasn’t clearly spoken.

By: Lance

Lance — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:41:04 +0000

@Wanda Mahoney:
The word “all” is the main clue. The English language won’t permit “all intent” any more than “all person”.

By: Wanda Mahoney

Wanda Mahoney — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:40:17 +0000

I thought it was “for all intent and purpose” in other words what it was intended for and for it’s purpose… ??

By: Manuel Bettencourt

Manuel Bettencourt — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:00:53 +0000

Interesting. My ex-wife thought it was a “doggy-dog” world (N of Pittsburg, c1970) and I, in my younger days (1960s, Georgia)) thought, for all intents and purposes, it was “for all intensive purposes.”

By: Beye Fyfe

Beye Fyfe — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:50:42 +0000

One of my favorits was written by a WAC who was asked on a questionnaire to comment on the food at the base where she was stationed: “The food in the mess hall is alright, but some of it is left to be desired.”

By: cWJ

cWJ — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:06:24 +0000

See the above link, Stan. Perhaps your student performed an allusion more complex than you realize.. ;)

By: Stan

Stan — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:04:10 +0000

a student once wrote: it’s a doggy dog world.
ranks right up there with “for all intensive purposes”!